A place to reference different tech writeups and other technical content I wrote or contributed to over the years. As much as some of those posts are not intended as opinion pieces, their content is opinionated as I propose solutions based on the technologies I use.
This guide details how to deploy Traefik using Docker compose (with Dockge) and Cloudflare as our DNS Challenge provider to generate Let’s Encrypt certificates for local infrastructure (not internet-accessible) and use basic authentication to protect the Traefik Dashboard.
The following uses the https://github.com/ostris/ai-toolkit GitHub repository to train a local LoRA on user-provided images. We will then create images using the generated LoRA with ComfyUI. Running this tool requires an Nvidia GPU with 24GB of VRAM. We will train on Ubuntu 24.04 with a recent Nvidia driver installed, git, brew (to install useful commands), and Python (python3 with pip3 and the venv package installed, either via apt or brew)
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In this post, we will run FLUX.1 [dev] within ComfyUI, proposing two installation methods: 1) with Dockge to run the tool within a docker compose; a server-compatible installation method, 2)using Stability Matrix, a desktop application with easy model integration with multiple inference engines available.
Dockge deployment of the cloudflared Zero Trust tunnel to create private-network public URLs with some access control.
Dockge deployment of the “Nginx Proxy Manager” reverse proxy to create private-network routable URLs with a Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificate and Cloudflare as our DNS provider.
This post details the build as a container of Automatic1111 and its integration as an image generator option for the “Ollama with Open WebUI” installation.
Linux host setup for cloudflared to allow Zero Trust access to a running web application, using one-time OTP to email, and alternative rules such as country blocking.
Linux hosts set up instructions for installing Ollama with the Open WebUI using Dockge, a self-hosted Docker Compose stacks management.
Linux host set-up instructions for Dockge, a self-hosted Docker Compose stacks management tool with a feature-rich interface for self-hosting and home lab setups. It provides access to an all-in-one view of logs, a YAML editor, a web terminal, container controls, and monitoring.
Hosting on a VPS is a great option to run a blogging service, but installing services that might expose ports needs to be done with some precaution (or not at all if the service is only to be used by the server itself).
This is a more opinionated post than usual: I live on the command line on Linux. As such, I perform a few extra steps after a fresh installation to get to a “usable” system.
This guide details how to install quickemu on a Linux Ubuntu 24.04 server to run desktop VMs (here, we will install Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop) on the same subnet IP range as the host's primary subnet using a network bridge. Those VMs are remotely accessible on the subnet using a SPICE client. This setup will provide VMs directly accessible on the subnet where the Linux server is running. Because we will specify the MAC addresses of those VMs, we can apply reserved DHCP IPs from our router and allow adding and configuring extra services within hardware firewalls, such as the Firewalla (for example, DNS-over-HTTPS).
